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NFL Links: Umenyiora eager to stand with players in court; Phillips charged
By PFW staff Osi Umenyiora "jumped at the chance" to become one of the lead plaintiffs in the NFL players' lawsuit against the NFL. Wade Phillips says he doesn't plan to make Mario Williams a stand-up linebacker. A Jacksonville reporter wonders if this
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:33P
Gov. Snyder wants emergency financial manager for schools and local
Rick Snyder is asking for expanded powers for emergency financial managers, equating the system of rescuing troubled schools and local governments with private companies getting help through bankruptcy. Snyder said he wants to sign the revamped system
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:33P
Gov. Snyder wants emergency financial manager for schools and local
Rick Snyder is asking for expanded powers for emergency financial managers, equating the system of rescuing troubled schools and local governments with private companies getting help through bankruptcy. Snyder said he wants to sign the revamped system
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:33P
Scissors Attack Homicide Trial Underway
Livingston County Judge Robert Wiggins will determine the verdict in this bench trial with no jury. Kiblin is accused of stabbing her boyfriend, Joseph "Jo Jo" Garcia, in the chest with a pair of scissors on the afternoon of July 2, 2010.
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:33P
Group launched for South Asian women
Attorney Hanishi Ali is giving South Asian women hoping to climb the ladder of professional success a way to get past the first few rungs with her recently launched Network for South Asian American Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals.
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:32P
State budget writers brace for bad news
It's a large amount of money (needed), and I don't see us raising taxes.” Sen. Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, was the Senate budget writer when lawmakers agreed to pledge 29 percent of the state's tobacco-lawsuit settlement in exchange for $450
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:31P
Lawsuit seeks to block implementation of Wisconsin union law
A lawsuit filed by Democratic Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk attempts to stop the publication on the grounds that the bill unconstitutionally passed the state Senate on Wednesday. Secretary of State Doug La Follette said the governor asked him to
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:31P
Public, private unions differ
Private unions took note of what happened in the steel workers unions, where demands were so excessive that the steel business was pushed overseas and in the auto workers unions where demands caused bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler forcing buyouts with
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:30P
Group sues Pennsylvania after it allowed adultBasic health care plan to end
The lawsuit filed in Commonwealth Court on Monday names Gov. Tom Corbett and top lawmakers. The plaintiffs' lawyer, Bill Caroselli, says the Legislature and the executive branch have no legal ability to end the program, called adultBasic.
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:30P
Report: Another 75 Borders stores closing
The chain previously said it would close 200 stores when it announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Feb. 16 and announced would close roughly one-third of its stores nationwide. There was no word on which additional stores would be closed.
Updated: 03/14/2011 02:29P
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